University of Cambridge application to the AHRC Creative Economy Engagement Fellowships scheme
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Fitzwilliam Museum
Abstract
The project will support fellowships that aim to support:
To support the career development of talented early career researchers and nurture future leaders
To support the broader skills development of high-calibre recent doctoral graduates or early career post-doctoral researchers in the art and humanities, particularly in relation to working with creative economy partners to support the wider impact of research
To support projects which will contribute to the Creative Economy
To support research which is cross-disciplinary, collaborative and innovation-orientated
To support the career development of talented early career researchers and nurture future leaders
To support the broader skills development of high-calibre recent doctoral graduates or early career post-doctoral researchers in the art and humanities, particularly in relation to working with creative economy partners to support the wider impact of research
To support projects which will contribute to the Creative Economy
To support research which is cross-disciplinary, collaborative and innovation-orientated
Planned Impact
See Case for Support
Publications
Cooper C
(2019)
You Can Handle It: 3D Printing for Museums
in Advances in Archaeological Practice
Pett, D.E.J., Cooper, C., Glen, A.L.J., Pitkin, M., And Wexler, J.
(2021)
Visual Heritage: Digital Reproduction and Contextualisation in Heritage Science
| Title | 22 audio recordings: MIAB Wexler |
| Description | 22 audio recordings + content for the Being and Islander Museum in a Box |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | These audio recordings were made with two academic colleagues from University of the Arts, London and Royal Holloway and gave voice to Winifred Lamb, one of the founding curators of Antiquities of the Fitzwilliam Museum. These audio recordings provide the foundation for transmission of information from the objects within the box to the user and provide a reusable resource for the Museum. |
| Title | 3D animation of coffin |
| Description | An animated 3D model derived from CT scan data of the inner coffin of Nespawershefyt. This model and film provide a high quality interpretative tool. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Working with PDRA Pitkin's creative economy partner ThinkSee3D, large volumes of CT scan data were processed and reassembled into a digital 3D model and then inserted into a film created by PI Pett and PDRA Pitkin in conjunction with the curatorial team of the Fitzwilliam Museum. This project produced a museum exemplar of cross team working and provided a high quality digital interpretative device that could feed into the Egyptian Coffins website (https://egyptiancoffins.org) and a 3D model that could be viewed on Sketchfab (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/ct-scan-of-nespawershefyts-inner-coffin-812d114fc2bb466daa003bfd8adc077d). This model and film were used for training Egyptian curators using GCRF funding. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/356279697 |
| Title | 3D prints: Wexler |
| Description | Production of 6 high quality 3D prints |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | 6 high-quality 3D prints (made by project partner ThinkSee3D) were created for the 'Being an Islander' Museum in a Box intervention. These high quality pieces convey 'authenticity' to the end user and allow for transmission of knowledge. |
| Title | 3d Print: SPRI |
| Description | A 3d print of a fossil was produced with the project partner (ThinkSee3D) and installed in a temporary exhibition at the Polar Museum, Cambridge. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | A 3d print of a fossil was produced with the project partner (ThinkSee3D) and installed in a temporary exhibition at the Polar Museum, Cambridge for handling by the museum's visitors. |
| Title | 3d models of collection |
| Description | The PDRA team produced a collection of 3D models that are used within the products of their research and museum activities. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The collection of models enabled: * prints for use within the Feast and Fast Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition installation * prints for use within two Museum in a Box projects (Glen and Wexler) * online use on sketchfab (over 2000 views) * creation of 3d prints for installation in a "replicas" gallery case within the antiquities gallery of the Fitzwilliam Museum * raw data sets for reproducible methods * models for incorporation in the Fitzwilliam Museum's collection online |
| URL | https://sketchfab.com/fitzwilliammuseum/collections/ahrc-ceef3d |
| Title | 7 'Pop-Up' Museums in Egypt (Cairo, Damietta) |
| Description | 7 'Pop-Up' Museums in Egypt (Cairo, Damietta) and Cambridge featuring the above in addition to the digital 3D animation |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | 7 'Pop-Up' Museums in Egypt (Cairo, Damietta) and Cambridge featuring the above in addition to the digital 3D animation |
| Title | Linked Open Data: Let's make some data |
| Description | A short animated film, 2 minutes in length, has been developed in collaboration between the PI, CoI and the host institutions. This animation uses 3d models generated from the Fitzwilliam Museum, a reimagining of legendary Fitzwilliam Museum curator Winifred Lamb, and the conceptual model of how linked open data works to demonstrate to viewers how they can make linked open data. This film will be released in March 2022, probably on Vimeo and embedded across the project website and shared via social media by project partners and participants. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | As for film 1, the major impact at the present time is creating new partnerships with creative industries. It reuses work from a previous AHRC project and enables them to have new reinvigorated life. The impact of these animations will be realised upon their release to the general public and whether the network grows. |
| Title | Linked Open Data: What's that you say? |
| Description | A short animated film, 2 minutes in length, has been developed in collaboration between the PI, CoI and the host institutions. This animation uses 3d models generated from the Fitzwilliam Museum, a reimagining of legendary Fitzwilliam Museum curator Winifred Lamb, and the conceptual model of how linked open data works to provide a general overview of the projects aims and objectives. This film will be released in March 2022, probably on Vimeo and embedded across the project website and shared via social media by project partners and participants. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | This project element's impacts at this present stage are around creating new partnerships and working methods with the creative industries. Upon the staged release of these animations, we expect more people to take an interest in the concepts and project ideals. |
| Title | Museum in a Box: Being an Islander |
| Description | An assemblage of 3D and 2D materials collated by PDRA Wexler with her collabortive partner Museum in a Box which will produce an installation for 'Being an Islander' (2021). |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This project brought together PDRA Wexler and exhibition curator, to work with the Museum in a Box Creative collaborator. A collection of materials were assembled, scanned and printed and synthesised to tell a coherent story relating to Winifred Lamb, a founding curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum's Antiquities collection. This project has enabled the exhibition curator to think about digital interventions including the use of this box and VR/AR within her exhibition. |
| Title | Museum in a Box: Feast and Fast |
| Description | A series of 2d and 3d materials, artwork, voice recordings and interpretation used for the creation of 3 Museum in a Box installations for the Feast and Fast exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum 2019-2020. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This project between PDRA Glen, exhibition curator Victoria Avery and creative collaborator Museum in a Box changed digital interventions within the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibitions team. Bespoke content was generated by the PDRA relating to the contents of the exhibition; she commissioned local artists to create material in response to the Wisbech swan register, packaging materials and other paraphernalia. 3 boxes were created with content and deployed into the exhibition's creative zone, inviting the public to interact with the contents in new and novel ways. |
| URL | https://feast-and-fast.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/museum-in-a-box/ |
| Title | Podcast: Physical/Virtual |
| Description | Digital technologies are continually changing the way we engage with and relate to physical objects. In this episode of What Are Museums For?, Fitzwilliam Museum Director Luke Syson and Athena Art Foundation Director Nicola Jennings are joined by Alayo Akinkugbe, Dr Gus Casely-Hayford OBE and Daniel Pett, to discuss the current digital opportunities around museum collections and engagement. What role can virtual exhibitions play in connecting people to collections? How might digital and physical approaches be combined to generate new layers of meaning? How can social media help us to tell different stories and engage younger audiences? This podcast is a Fitzwilliam Museum, Colnaghi Foundation and Athena Art Foundation co-production. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | This podcast has only been available for a short period of time, no reportable impacts at this point except listener count of 200 |
| URL | https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/conversations/podcasts/episode/physicalvirtual |
| Title | Pop up museums: Wisbech |
| Description | 16 'Pop-Up' Museums in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | PDRA Pitkin's research on this fellowship was used as a foundational element of the pop up museum project that held 16 different interventions in Wisbech, Cambs. |
| Title | Replicas gallery case |
| Description | Installation of 3 prints within a gallery case in the Antiquities gallery of the Fitzwilliam Museum. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | '100 years of replicas at the Fitzwilliam', looking at the role of historic and 3D-derived replicas of archaeological objects in the museum collections This intervention used 3 physical prints, produced by PDRA Wexler and her creative economy partner (ThinkSee3D) to demonstrate the changing methods used in the replication of museum objects. This intervention is notable as it was serendipitous, with the gallery curator's interest being piqued by the PDRA's work and asking for the intervention to be staged. These pieces have significance for the Linking Islands of Data project as well, due to their focus on Cypriot antiquities. |
| Title | Scale Replica: Pitkin |
| Description | 1:1 scale craft replica of a small wooden box coffin made for a dog commissioned from Dr Geoffrey Killen |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This intervention created a reusable resource that became a feature of several museum led activities (Mozilla Festival handling, Egyptian Pop Up museum) and mixed new and old technologies together. The dog coffin was scanned used photogrammetry and this model was used to create a wooden replica (supervised by PDRA Pitkin) commissioned from world leading expert Killen. |
| URL | https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/painted-wooden-coffin-of-a-dog-521118a019ec49e6a7b8cbbcc5c47ddb |
| Title | Tactile 3D model of a torso of Dionysus |
| Description | A 3D cast of a torso of Dionysus held in the Fitzwilliam Museum's permanent collections. This was scanned at high resolution by Daniel Pett, and then printed and ultimately cast into jesmonite resin (mixed with marble dust) by our 3D printing partner from another AHRC grant for use as a tactile object in the museum gallery. This piece is 1/3 life size. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The digital model has been viewed online 6,700 times and has been downloaded for serendipitous reuse 9 times. The evaluation of public interaction with this intervention will fall outside the reporting window of this project due to museum refurbishment and timetabling decisions (outside our control.) |
| URL | https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/dionysus-3ab23db82b9b42e7af8fc1818c01b885 |
| Description | This project has provided significant digital humanities research skills across the four Fellows; one of them directly attributes her success in obtaining a lectureship in digital humanities to the skills she developed during this project. Through showing what can be achieved by postdoctoral researchers working in digital humanities, the Museum has been able to make a significant strategic goal around developing our work in immersive experiences. This work has been given significant impetus through this project, which was the first of its kind for the Museum. For the creative economy partners, this project has enabled them to develop new services (ThinkSee3D) and has provided significant data on the uses of their product in different settings, as well as potential routes to new business. |
| Exploitation Route | Through publication and presentations, this project is sharing its findings with academia and with the broader creative economy sector. These routes to sharing our findings, will enable creative economy organisations to better understand how to work with the heritage sector. It has been especially important to this project that the host Department is a university museums so is in both the academic and heritage sector, enabling us to understand both worlds in our delivery of this project. Through working with 2 creative industries organisaitons, we were also inspired to start considering how we might work with AR/VR companies; these discussions are ongoing. Without the initial funding from AHRC, we would not have been able to start having these conversations. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://creative-economy.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Fostering global economic performance: - designed and tested a new service at Museum in a Box, a subscription service, - supported the development of new skills and inspired innovation in services offered at ThinkSee3D through working with them to use data from CT scans and asking them to significantly innovate their use of animation within their processes Enhancing quality of life, health and creative output: The 3D animation, used as part of a wider 'pop up' museum showed potential results around enhancing the wellbeing of those who engaged with the pop up Through working with Cam Art Makers, we were able to support their creative output and provide a commercial avenue for their work. Showcasing several museum in a boxes within the Feast & Fast exhibition shows us enhancing creative output; showing ThinkSee3D prints within the gallery space. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Institute for Classical Studies, University of London Steering Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | This steering group can enable the diverse organisations that make up the constituents of the ICS's membership to access digital technological advice from a wide range of external organisations. This steering group took great interest in the use of Linked Open Data and the outputs of the project, with many elements becoming part of the ICS teaching materials. This group meets 3 times a year, and has transferred to online meetings to mitigate for Covid 19. The membership is mainly university teaching grade practitioners, but the participants in projects and teaching can range from students to members of the general public. |
| Description | Cambridge Art Makers |
| Organisation | Cambridge Art Makers |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have provided this micro-SME with access to much larger audiences than they had previously had access to, through showing some of their creative work for our project on the walls of a major exhibition (expected to reach c.90,000 people) and collaborating with them to sell their products in our shops. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners bought their creative expertise to bear on our challenge to provide a high-quality, creative packaging solution for the Museum in a Box trial subscription service. |
| Impact | Creative outputs: packaging in response to specific specifications. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Museum in a Box |
| Organisation | Museum in a Box |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The research team has enabled Museum in a Box to: - be trialled within a clinical setting for the first time, providing data and qualitative responses, enabling a research-led evidence base for what works and what doesn't - be trialled within a relatively long-running temporary exhibition, providing data on any technological issues that can feed into further development of the product - develop new long-running collaborations (e.g. a Museum in a Box is planned to be included in an exhibition running in 2021/22) - be connected with the wider University of Cambridge Museums consortium, providing new collaborative and commercial opportunities - do user research that would support Museum in a Box developing a new subscription service for the Box - be more aware of current areas of research inquiry in the museum sector and through this to see how the Box could be used to uncover hidden tales within museum collections that are of interest to - and trialled with - key audience members. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to facilities and expertise, including learning from working practice, creating and managing content. |
| Impact | Outputs: - New content for Museum in a Box - Presentations to academic and creative economy sector audiences - Research on audience reactions to Museum in a Box shared and discussed with company - Engagement workshops with members of the public exploring the use of Museum in a Box with different types of content Outcomes: - new ways of developing the Museum in a Box business model through a subscription service - proof of concept in temporary exhibition and clinical settings - new potential collaborators across the University of Cambridge Museums consortium and beyond Multi-disciplinary collaborations: Digital humanities English Archaeology History Museology |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | ThinkSee3D |
| Organisation | ThinkSee3D |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have challenged ThinkSee3D to develop the services that they offer to the heritage sector, through providing new types of data on which they could build their 3D models. Through this work, we opened up new opportunities for their 3D printing and making process that they will use to inform future commissions from other organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ThinkSee3D shared their 3D printing and making processes with us; they inputted into research papers, ensuring that our work could be shared. They provided access to expertise and facilities. |
| Impact | Outputs: New commercial making processes and services Publications Material for 'pop up Museum' that has been delivered in the UK and in Egypt, with associated evaluation data High-quality 3D prints Outcomes: Enhanced understanding of the 3D making processes across the project and, more widely, through presentations with the wider University of Cambridge Museums, researchers across the University of Cambridge and beyond, and wider creative economy sector representatives who attended workshops that we gave. Multi-disciplinary: Digital humanities Archaeology Classics Egyptology |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | soluis |
| Organisation | Soluis |
| Department | Soluis Heritage |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dr Glen bought her research and exhibition expertise gained during this project and other postdoctoral research to support Soluis Heritage set up and uninstall an exhibition. They also provided her with key insights into their latest work on AR/VR that she bought back to the museum, and which remains under discussion, but which is a key part of our strategic plan, emphasising the importance of this collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Soluis Heritage provided a workshadowing opportunity for Dr Abi Glen, one of the four creative economy fellowships. |
| Impact | Outputs: a workshadowing opportunity Multi-disciplinary: English & Digital Humanities |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Title | Creative Economy Engagement Fellows Website |
| Description | This software is a static HTML site generated by the Jekyll software package and hosted on Github Pages. It documents the work that the fellows created over 2018 and was part of their knowledge acquisition programme during their fellowship. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This software was the first time 3 of the 4 fellows had ever been exposed to research software engineering methods and allowed them to learn the following: * Markdown * Creation of a static HTML site from scratch * How to use version contro * How to deploy a site to Github Pages * Web authorship |
| URL | https://creative-economy.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk |
| Description | 3D training provided for the British Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Wexler, PDRA presented a 3D Imagery Training Session + development of a written training module for the Endangered Material Knowledge (EMKP) Programme at the British Museum based on knowledge gained during her fellowship and working relationship with PI Pett. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Bitesize: CEEF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A small internal briefing meeting for Fitzwilliam Museum staff to raise awareness about the projects and their intended outcomes. These events were to allow the Front of House and back office staff of the museum to ask questions and make suggestions for improvement of in museum display of the work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Blog post Conference: Pitkin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog post from CEEF 3D conference on CEEF website, https://creative-economy.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/news/post-conference-part-2 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://creative-economy.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/news/post-conference-part-2 |
| Description | Blog post ThinkSee3D: Pitkin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog post 'Visit to ThinkSee3D' on CEEF website, 29/3/2019, https://creative-economy.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/news/visit-thinksee3D |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://creative-economy.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/news/visit-thinksee3D |
| Description | CAA UK round table |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A panel entitled "Multisensory pasts towards accessible futures" featured 2 members of the CEEF 3D project and was moderated and organised by a third. The panel was described as: Digital technologies have long been celebrated for allowing us to visualise past places and spaces but more recently there has been a move to embrace technologies which allow for wider sensory experience. With these comes the potential to provide experiences that allow for those with vision or hearing impediments to engage with our work in new and exciting ways. This panel session will discuss multisensory engagements and consider how they can be used to widen access to our understanding of the past. Over 60 people participated in this online panel with Q&A after the initial discussion, with a vibrant social media back channel that prompted post session correspondence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://uk.caa-international.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2020/12/Timetable.pdf |
| Description | Caring for coffins, Cairo: Pitkin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Caring for ancient Egyptian coffins in Cairo (Part 2): the 'Pop-Up' museum outreach project", Fitzwilliam Museum lunchtime talk, 35 people |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caring for coffins: Pitkin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Caring for ancient Egyptian coffins in Cairo: a new collaboration for the future |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology: Cooper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PDRA Cooper spoke about this project and her previous research practise, sponsored by the Fitzwilliam Museum Marlay Research Grants at Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology in Krakow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Courtauld research panel discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A panel was held to mark the launch of Jack Hartnell's 'Continuous Page' research project with international participants being live broadcast on Zoom for a global ticketed audience. Panelists presented on digital documentation methods and anecdotes from their academic practise. Post presentation, panelists discussed concepts amongst themselves before being turned over to online Q&A. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/7BmPeFTeX1Q |
| Description | Creative Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The PI and PDRA Wexler and Creative Economy partner Museum in a Box spoke at the Creative Cambridge conference and generated new contacts and working opportunities.Creative Cambridge |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage, Spring 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Daniel Pett participated in the SunoikisisDC Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage, Spring 2022 webinar with representatives from the British Museum and Institute for Advanced Studies. In this session we present some of the methods for 3D scanning and imaging that are used in museums and other heritage institutions and projects. We discuss some concrete case studies from the British Museum science department and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and think about the research, conservation, access, engagement and other benefits of using and sharing advanced imaging of archaeological and heritage objects. We briefly introduce the technique of photogrammetry-production of a 3D model from multiple 2D photographs-and suggest an exercise for viewers to create their own model using this method. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2021-2022/wiki/3-3D-imaging |
| Description | Engaging adudiences: Pitkin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Engaging audiences in areas of low cultural provision: The concept of the pop-up museum experience" for the annual ICOM-CIPEG meeting in Kyoto, Japan, 40 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | GLAM Digital Lunch, University of Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The CEEF fellows gave a presentation to colleagues from University of Cambridge Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum colleagues. New ideas for collaboration were forthcoming. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | I only came in for courgettes : Pitkin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Pop-Up Egyptian Coffins Project. Engaging communities in areas of low cultural provision", presented at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 35 people |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Interdisciplinary Conference, Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Within the heritage sector, we want to increase interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around increasing accessibility to the collections, whilst ensuring that we are taking our responsibility for the objects in our care seriously. Speakers will specialise in 3D technologies, conservation, learning, outreach and research. A particular area of interest for us is around how interventions could be replicated in other settings and bringing together different voices to establish how this might work. A collaboratively organised conference between two research projects at the Fitzwilliam Museum (this grant and an internally funded 3D project) and our two industry partners. This conference saw six normal conference length papers and over 30 short 6 minutes presentations, a pop up Egyptian museum and two partner stalls showing products involved in the research. Over 90 people attended in person and a wide digital audience interacted with participants via Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. The conference has sparked further requests for collaboration and knowledge transfer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://creative-economy.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/conference/ |
| Description | London Museums Group - Agile |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An online panel discussion moderated by the director of the Cartoon Museum, with Daniel Pett from the Fitzwilliam Museum and the director of the Shuttleworth Collection (Bedfordshire) discussing the impacts of Covid19 on working practise in museums - focus points were on digital and the methods that this could implement/learn from. Over 90 people attended with robust questioning following the panel discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/mbbwfbRq0sc |
| Description | Lunchtime lecture: CEEF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A lunchtime lecture for the Museum's adult programming which was to inform the public about the research programme and the potential outputs and benefits of 3D and partnerships with creative industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Microsoft Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Fitzwilliam Museum's 3d team met with Microsoft Research to discuss how the outputs of the CEE fellowship work, mainly 3d models could be incorporated into the teaching and products of Microsoft's research arm. Several models generated by the project have been used in Python code and YouTube demonstrations by the research team of Microsoft. The outcome of this meeting was to discover more ways to work together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with National Museum of Scotland: 3D, citizen science, Linked Open Data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A small working meeting to discuss linked open data application, 3D scanning and citizen science with the National Museum of Scotland. This enabled opportunities to discuss, learn and create knowledge transfer opportunities between the institutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Mozilla Festival of the Open Web: Arts and Culture Salon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Arts & Culture Salon, was a comfortable gathering space for people with a common interest in open forms of creativity. Among the artworks installed in the Salon was Tom Schofield's Accession, a work custom-made for MozFest. Accession is a collecting booth for an imaginary museum regulated entirely by AI, where you're invited to submit an everyday object to the collection. These objects are photographed, classified, and evaluated by AI processes, which evolve and become more selective as the AI learns from the collection. The Arts & Culture Salon also features show-and-tell demonstrations of open art and culture projects and participatory sessions critically reflecting on the collaborative practice of collecting and preserving art and culture. The Salon provided a space for all 4 of the PDRA's work to be displayed and discussed alongside other in innovative digital projects including thought-provoking, participatory sessions such as "Sing for Your Data Rights," with digital rights activist and former Mozilla Fellow Valentina Pavel. In this beginner-friendly, collaborative songwriting session, the subject matter is participants' online challenges and fears, and their dreams of a better digital future. In "Decolonising Tibet: Digitisation, Translation, Communication" led by Georgina Doji, participants explore the ways technology and the internet can be employed to bridge communities in diaspora with a shared cultural history; they'll also discuss the challenges of accessing historical and contemporary information in a society, like Tibet, in which communication is heavily monitored. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Mozilla Festival of the Open Web: Session and demonstration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The PDRA team submitted a session for the Mozilla Festival of the Open Web Arts and Culture Salon (curated by the PI and Philo van Kemanade) to discuss their research and the Egyptian pop up museum with participants. This was an hour long discussion and show and tell session that was presented concurrently alongside other sessions in the programme. Around 20 people participated in this section and were engaged in debate and handled 3D prints, used museum in a box and helped inform future research direction. The PDRAs then set up a stall for the next two days that was enabled festival delegates to engage with their research alongside various other institutions and companies. Over 2000 delegates came to the festival and it is estimated that over a 1000 people came through the SALON. Pieces written by participants who came to the session or Salon include: * https://www.voicemag.uk/blog/6324/mozfest-arts-and-culture-salon * https://www.uclcaal.org/musings/on-mozillafestival-2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Museum in a Box: Feast and Fast exhibition installation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The collaborative work of PDRA Glen with Museum in a Box has seen the installation of 3 of her project boxes within the creative zone of the FItzwilliam Museum's seasonal exhibition - Feast and Fast (https://feast-and-fast.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk) which has the potential to reach over 100,000 members of the public. These 3 boxes all contain the same content and allow 6 people at a time to engage with creative media created in response to the objects within the exhibition. These media include voice artists, images, 3d prints and 2d work and the display of commissioned artwork from a local artist (Cambridge Art Makers.) Significantly, the exhibitions team bought 2 more boxes from Museum in a Box and plan to use these devices in future work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://feast-and-fast.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/museum-in-a-box/ |
| Description | Photogrammetry training, Cairo: Pett |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Teaching 30+ Egyptian Museum curators and conservators how to create 3D models using photogrammetry at low cost. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Podcast Interview: Shawn Graham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Shawn Graham, Carleton University interviewed Daniel Pett for a podcast episode and for his teaching course for Canadian students. This wide ranging discussion touched on topics related to all of Pett's AHRC funded research activities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://digiarch.netlify.app/ |
| Description | Private seminar lesson on 3D - What can the National Museum of Denmark learn from the Fitzwilliam Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Fitzwilliam Museum was asked to convene a two hour long briefing workshop for the National Museum of Denmark, to provide knowledge exchange opportunities for their staff to learn from the examples generated during the PI's British Museum career and the subsequent work at the Fitzwilliam under the CEE fellowship scheme. The workshop brought together 10 members of NMD staff and the PI invited the lead of the Australian National University's DH lab to participate in the discussions. This workshop was held on zoom and has led to further opportunities to work together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Pushkin Museum, Moscow Digital Round Table |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An online (Zoom) international round table was organised as part of the Pushkin Museum's "Inter-Museum" Digital Technologies conference that was simulcast in Russian and English. This roundtable had presentations from each of 4 delegates talking about their research foci, the Fitzwilliam contribution was on 3D technologies, citizen science and linked data. The roundtable moved on to discuss between panelists and then was opened to the international audience . This conference was meant to be a physical, in person event, but due to Covid 19 went online completely with over 500 delegates registered. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://imuseum.ru/en/ |
| Description | Seeing the unseen: Pitkin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Seeing the unseen: current research into ancient Egyptian funerary culture at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge", Fenland Archaeology Group, 30 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Seminar for the Royal Academy's MBA cohort |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Fitzwilliam Museum was contacted by the Royal Academy's MBA course convener following a member of their team participating in our workshop at Mozilla Festival in October 2019. Our team delivered a 2 hour workshop/seminar for the course's cohort relating to the research and outputs of the post-doctoral programme. The cohort was international in membership and ranged from junior to senior practitioners in museums and galleries. The seminar was interactive/discussant led with the PDRAs presenting their research outputs and the PI presenting the themes and discussing the content with the participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/parent-page/executive-master-cultural-leadership/ |
| Description | Smithsonian |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PI Daniel Pett was invited to give a talk at the Smithsonian NMAAHC as part of the UK/USA network collaboration event and subsequently participate in the workshop that followed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Society of Antiquaries 100 years of women event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Wexler, PDRA for the project presented a paper called Choose Your Own Adventure? Using Digital Meanderings and Archaeological Enchantments via Winifred Lamb and Beyond with a q&a/handling session for "100 Year of Female Antiquaries" Event at the Society of Antiquaries London. This talk involved presenting 3D models and the museum in a box project that was part of the creative economy fellowships and the ahrc network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.sal.org.uk/event/100-year-of-female-antiquaries/ |
| Description | Talk on the Egyptian coffin 'Pop-Up' for an online Heritage Course run by The Authentic Spark |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Melanie Pitkin, PDRA on this project gave an online talk for a MOOC platform focused on the Egyptian Coffin Pop-Up'. This course was run by The Authentic Spark as part of their programme of activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.theauthenticspark.com/ |
| Description | The Pop-Up Egyptian Coffins Project: Pitkin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Pop-Up Egyptian Coffins Project. A method for engaging non-academic audiences in academic research", Egyptian Museum Cairo, 27 people |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Theoretical Archaeology Group: Cooper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | PDRA Cooper gave a paper about past, current and future work in her practise based work at the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference at UCL> |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |